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Our Daily Thread 4-20-15

Good Morning!

On this day in 1775 American troops began the siege of British-held Boston.

In 1841, in Philadelphia, PA, Edgar Allen Poe’s first detective story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” was published in Graham’s Magazine.

In 1902 Scientists Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium.

And in 1971 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.

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Quote of the Day

“All I can say is that I’m going to try to coach the way I’ve coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.”

Steve Spurrier

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 Today is Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky’s  birthday.

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Anyone have a QoD?

38 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-20-15”

  2. I need to do some Catsup
    reading since I missed a lot over the weekend.
    It’s good to be back although it was very nice to be at a conference center and just get in line for buffet meals. The worship was really good and breakout sessions are always inspiring about missions and prayer. I travel with some fun older ladies. The retreat next year will be at the coast and Margaret Feinberg will be the key speaker.

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  3. Funny to see a Tweet from a local tv weather person telling us, “Don’t be afraid of that bright thing over Dekalb county this morning.” We have not see the sun in the a.m. in so long that it is almost scary.

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  4. The sun was coming up as we were going to the Y.
    When we came out, it was raining hard. I told Sweet Thing that I would bring the truck around to pick her up.
    When I got around, she wasn’t under the shelter of the Y entrance she was in the rain waiting for me.
    I’m beginning to worry about her some. Not just that, but it illustrates the problem..

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  5. Steve Spurrier just turned seventy. He tells the recruits that he will be around at least three more years. But some are skeptical. We hope he can stay around. I was hoping we could get Charlie Strange. Charlie was defensive coach for the Gamecocks. He went on to coach Louisville Cardinals, then to some team in Texas.
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  7. On the editorial page of the Times-News. A young mother talking to another at the playground:

    “Vaccines are prepared at Area 51:by reverse-engineered alien technology on orders from the Trilateral Commission, then delivered by black helicopters under the U.N.’s “Agenda 212″ mandates.”
    “But that’s just my personal opinion.”

    I’ve always known that.

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  10. I was momentarily puzzled by this morning’s photo of a red-bellied woodpecker, since I took one almost exactly like that yesterday, but I didn’t remember sending it to AJ. Then I realized that I didn’t, that the photo isn’t mine, and then after that I saw the subtle differences from mine (this bird is a female and mine was a male, mine didn’t have anything in its beak and didn’t have twigs “coming out of the bird,” etc.).

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  11. That would have been the Birdie Mae Davis case that wasn’t actually settled until 1997. It essentially did away with “neighborhood schools”. I am not arguing about desegregation. What I am saying is that community support of the “neighborhood school” ceased to exist. It was MANDATORY and students weren’t given a choice. In 1972 students graduated from high schools they only attended for 1 year with students they didn’t know. There was violence from both sides. “Segregation Academies” popped up everywhere. These were private schools or Christian Schools. People who could afford to do so sent their children there. This has had a lasting effect on the public schools in Mobile County to this day. Mobile public schools still have the reputation of being substandard whether they are or not. One area of the county broke away several years ago and has a separate School System.. The community has supported the school and it is one of the best in Alabama. Birmingham did the same thing.
    It has been proposed several times in the county where I live but so far has been voted down. This county was more rural in 1971 and everyone sort of knew each other so there wasn’t that much resistance to the mandate.
    One thing the settelement of the case did in 1997 was fund “charter schools”. These were great and it was quite something if your student was chosen to attend. Unfortunately, they have been defunded.
    Lasting consequences…

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  13. Good morning….coughing, sneezing, watery eyes…it was a rough day yesterday…today I am much better!
    Paul went for a run yesterday…ran down through a swampy creek area…started itching, swollen eyes…throat felt as though it was swelling….would he go to the hospital…no….I am married to a very stubborn man….he took a Benedryl, soaked in a baking soda bath…he is much better this morning although his eyes are still swollen. This happened to him last year on a run…something he is highly allergic to out there. I told him I am making an appt for him this morning with our doc…I am just as stubborn!

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  14. For those who may not have seen my final comment from last night on Rants & Raves, I want to repost it here…

    “Oh, believe me, I am not being lulled by his very-occasional charm. It actually makes me wonder what he’s up to.

    “Unfortunately, in Connecticut, it is very, very hard for either parent to get sole custody. There is good reason for that, but I think we have gone overboard in protecting the rights of fathers or mothers who are not good for their kids.

    “As I said above, Emily will pass this by her lawyer in the morning. He will tell her how to proceed. He once told her she was close to having a good case for sole custody, so maybe this incident would help.

    “My prayers are in hope that God will intervene & get a hold of R before the situation becomes dangerous, but we are also keeping our eyes open, & keeping the lawyer apprised of what is going on.”

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  15. It seems to be Monday.

    I don’t even know what’s on my plate this week, but there’s never any shortage of stories now that we’re so short-handed.

    We may get some rain this week.

    Oh, and I saw on FB when I got up that R.C. Sproul checked himself into the hospital on Saturday, he’s still there — they believe he may have had a mild stroke and have asked for prayer 😦 He’s such a treasure

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  16. Good morning, all. I have a doctor appointment today. I’m looking forward to it — I haven’t been in for three years, and my doctor’s a nice guy; very easy to talk to.

    However, if he tells me to quit playing piano for a while because of my arm (it’s still hurting a fair amount), I will tell him “Not until after Sunday!” (the piano show date).

    I can be stubborn too! 🙂

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  19. Karen,

    I’m as pro-gun as they come. I’m also for teaching responsible young folks how to use one, in the safest and most responsible way possible.

    But that young man is an idiot.

    A kid that young has no business being around one, and especially not handling a loaded one. That’s about as irresponsible as you can get. This also shows me that his father has no business with one either. He’s too immature as well. I’d report it to the folks handling custody for sure.

    He shouldn’t be trusted with a child or a gun because he’s demonstrating his inability to properly handle either of them. People like him are what gives gun owners a bad rap.

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  22. Emily’s lawyer said what R did wasn’t illegal (I guess because he’s F’s father?), so we don’t need to report it to the police. 😦

    But he also told her to bring it up to the judge during their next court date in a little over a month, & said that the judge would probably make some order regarding it, maybe ordering supervised visits.

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  26. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2015/04/la_times_daily_breeze_win.php#

    “Big news at the Pulitzer Prize announcement in New York at noon. Two Los Angeles Times writers won Pulitzers — Mary McNamara for her TV criticism and Diana Marcum for feature writing about the drought. That is 43 Pulitzers for the LA Times in its history. Perhaps the bigger local angle is that the Daily Breeze in Torrance won its first-ever Pulitzer, for investigating the Centinela Valley Union High School District. .. “

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  27. Congrats, Daily Breeze! 🙂

    My doctor appointment went very well. We had a good talk about a lot of things. And I did not know until today that he has a daughter who was a concert pianist! (Before she became a nurse.) So it was fun talking music with him. 🙂

    And good news! I have reached my goal weight! Plus one! I weighed 121 on the clinic scale. I have wanted so much to get to 120, and have been working hard to gain, and now I’m finally there! (A significant portion of last year my weight still had zero as the middle digit.)

    I feel a lot better now — less tired, much more upbeat. Life is good! 🙂

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  28. Champagne bottles popping and flowing, editor fielding calls from TV, NY Times, AP … Pretty awesome day, especially considering how small our staff is now. Heady stuff for us, the little engine that could.

    6 arrows, glad the doctor visit went well

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  29. Good job on the weight, 6 Arrows! For most of my life, I couldn’t gain weight no matter what I did, so I learned to ignore it and eat what I wanted . . . and then I gained 20 pounds in my first year of marriage. Oops! (I needed it, actually, though the 15 I’ve gained since means “OK, Cheryl, now it’s time to start being careful.”)

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  30. On Twitter: Guy who won a Pulitzer for local coverage today left journalism because it couldn’t pay his rent. Now he’s in PR.

    Well, sadly true, he left us several months ago — but he did come back today for the celebration & to get some champagne dumped on his head. 🙂

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  32. Thanks, Donna and Cheryl. My sweet, older Bible study ladies in the Sunday class I used to attend (and can now return to starting this coming Sunday) were somewhat worried about me and my weight, and my problems with gluten. They will be very glad to know how well things looked today.

    I was always wondering when (or if) I would experience some weight gain due to menopause. [As an aside to any guys reading, from here on out, this will be — ahem — girl talk.] 😉

    It seems I’m there now (menopause). My doctor said it’s considered pretty official six months after your last period, and it’s been eight months now for me.

    My mom said her last one was 12 months after her second-to-the-last one. I asked my doctor about that, and he said something like it was kind of like the ovaries’ “last hurrah,” but, really, that second one from the end, in her case, would be considered the end.

    Or something like that.

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  33. I wondered if my blood pressure (always very low) would start rising with menopause, too.

    Nope. Not yet, anyway. Today it was 90/62. 🙂

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  34. 6 Arrows, in 2010 I went through a time period when I wasn’t doing well at all physically, and among other things I lost a lot of weight I couldn’t afford to lose. The year culminated with some medical intervention, and to regain the weight I had lost, for some months I ate four meals a day. In six months I had regained the weight I had lost, 15 or 20 pounds, and that was about the time I met my husband.

    I had a feisty neighbor down the street from me who was determined that I was anorexic. She herself had Alzheimer’s, and part of her symptoms was losing any sense of good judgment. She absolutely insisted I had anorexia and was going to die of it. I told her that I had always been thin, that I came by it honestly (my father was only an inch and a half taller than my adult height, but at that point I weighed within a few pounds of what he did), that I was aware that I was underweight and admitted that I was underweight and if I had anorexia I wouldn’t be saying that, that she knew of my medical problems and maybe she didn’t know but I’d lost a lot of weight, and that I was now eating four meals a day to put the weight back on, which I wouldn’t be doing if I was anorexic. None of that was enough to convince her, because she was convinced I was anorexic. The funny conclusion to that aspect of my relationship with her? One day my housemate came in with a laugh, and announced she had met that neighbor, who had found out she lived with me, and told her I was anorexic. (She said she assured the neighbor that I wasn’t.) The neighbor hammered the point home by telling her that Misten was anorexic too! 🙂 (Misten was in fact not eating well and had lost weight . . . but there is no possible way a person can tell such a thing by looking at a collie! She was simply in her lighter summer coat.)

    Anyway, my friends at church had long seen me as too thin, but I gained the weight back quickly enough that my best friend finally told me I needed to be careful and not gain anymore till after our wedding, lest I not fit into the dress. I wasn’t yet at an ideal weight (though I was back up to my typical weight). To be honest, I couldn’t tell you within 5 pounds what I weighed on my wedding day. I just know what I got down to (99 pounds, and I’m 5’6″) and that I was happy when I got 10 pounds of my loss back. And that a year after our wedding, I was the heaviest I’d ever been. The combination of getting beyond the health problems, perimenopause and/or menopause, and marriage was enough that now I’m quite a bit more than at my lowest and more than I thought I’d ever weigh. I’m at the “I could lose 10 pounds, and 20 would be OK” point, which basically just means I don’t want to gain anymore, since I think I’m at a healthier weight than I was 30 pounds ago, and I refuse to nitpick about my body.

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  36. Cheryl, I’m pretty sure people were whispering about me behind my back, wondering if I was anorexic, in the year before I got married. I moved out of my parents’ home for my last year of college, planning on getting married right after graduation. I lived in one apartment for about two months, then moved to another for the remainder of that year before marrying.

    In the second apartment, it wasn’t long after I’d moved in that I started feeling sick after every meal (and worse right before, when I was getting hungry). I think the water was bad at that apartment. It was really cloudy and bad tasting compared to any other water I’d had.

    I had chronic diarrhea, and other digestive problems, and the weight dropped off really fast. I went from 140-something (which, granted, was too much weight for my small frame) to the low 120s in only a couple, three months.

    Eventually, I started feeling better (I think I stopped using our tap water), and my weight stabilized.

    Meanwhile, though, my bowling teammates, knowing I was getting married the next summer, very literally appeared to be talking behind my back. It was quite a distinct feeling. I’d stand up to take my turn to bowl, and when I’d turn around, sometimes they’d look at me with an expression that looked like they’d just been saying something about me, and were watching my face intently as if to determine whether I had figured out that they were whispering.

    I’d known these ladies for years, and I never had that feeling about them until I lost all that weight so suddenly.

    Years later, when I was already married, and at a healthy weight, though still thin, a new friend of mine whose son took piano lessons from me, asked me one time if I had ever struggled with anorexia or bulimia. (We were both just about exactly the same build at that time.)

    I told her I had not. I appreciated her asking, though, because she did it out of concern. She had formerly struggled with eating disorders and was back on the road to health, and, in her compassion, she wanted to offer me encouragement if I was also walking that same road.

    She listened, and did not try to counter anything I said, as if she knew better.

    That, to me, is the way to go if one has any concerns — to ask, then listen — rather than assume, and say nothing, except to people who can’t do anything about the root problem.

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  37. 99 pounds would be scary at your height, Cheryl. I was getting afraid I would dip below 100, too (I’m 5 feet 8 inches). Early last year, there was one time my scale registered 103. I had a slight stomach virus at that time, though, so I figured that weight was very temporary, and it was. But for a long time around that time, my “set point” seemed to be 105.

    Turns out my scale registers three pounds less than the clinic scale, so those weights would be 106 and 108, and what I thought was my weight at the beginning of this year (108) was actually 111.

    So I have gained 10 pounds since January 1. I am happy. 🙂

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